Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, "Guns, Germs, and Steel" is a brilliant work answering the question of why the peoples of certain continents succeeded in invading other continents and conquering or displacing their peoples. This edition includes a new chapter on Japan and all-new illustrations drawn from the television series. Until around 11,000 BC, all peoples were still Stone Age hunter/gatherers. At that point, a great divide occurred in the rates that human societies evolved. In Eurasia, parts of the Americas, and Africa, farming became the prevailing mode of existence when indigenous wild plants and animals were domesticated by prehistoric planters and herders. As Jared Diamond vividly reveals, the very people who gained a head start in producing food would collide with preliterate cultures, shaping the modern world through conquest, displacement, and genocide.The paths that lead from scattered centers of food to broad bands of settlement had a great deal to do with climate and geography. But how did differences in societies arise? Why weren't native Australians, Americans, or Africans the ones to colonize Europe? Diamond dismantles pernicious racial theories tracing societal differences to biological differences. He assembles convincing evidence linking germs to domestication of animals, germs that Eurasians then spread in epidemic proportions in their voyages of discovery. In its sweep, "Guns, Germs and Steel" encompasses the rise of agriculture, technology, writing, government, and religion, providing a unifying theory of human history as intriguing as the histories of dinosaurs and glaciers.
贾雷德·戴蒙德,加利福尼亚大学洛杉矶分校医学院生理学教授以生理学开始其科学生涯,进而研究演化生物学和生物地理学,被选为美国艺术与科学院、国家科学院院士、美国哲学学会会员,曾获得麦克阿瑟基金会研究员基金及全国地理学会伯尔奖,在《发现》、《博物学》、《自然》和《地理》杂志上发表过论文200多篇。
零、 戴蒙德的专业是生物学和新几内亚人类学考察,除此之外写的都是科普书,而且前后重复(后面所有的书不过是扩写他的第一本书第三种猩猩而已),观点陈旧(他的人类学理论训练很可能停留在人类学2.0版本的反思民族志之前,因此习以为常地使用人类学1.0版本的西方中心论或东方...
评分零、 戴蒙德的专业是生物学和新几内亚人类学考察,除此之外写的都是科普书,而且前后重复(后面所有的书不过是扩写他的第一本书第三种猩猩而已),观点陈旧(他的人类学理论训练很可能停留在人类学2.0版本的反思民族志之前,因此习以为常地使用人类学1.0版本的西方中心论或东方...
评分http://headsalon.org/archives/1530.html 不知何故,对Jared Diamond那本雄心勃勃的《枪炮、病菌与钢铁》(Guns, Germs, and Steel)一直不抱多大期望,或许是我对畅销书有些偏见吧,但这次显然错了,读过前几章,已让我惊叹:这正是多年来我所期待的那种历史研究啊。 年轻...
评分作为后人,我们总是免不了要对发生过的历史作些“如果”的想象,特别是当这种历史对我们是带有屈辱色彩的历史。比如中国人就常想“如果戊戌变法成功了中国如何”,“没有文化大革命又如何”,同时也会有大量“为什么这样,为什么那样”的问题,如“为什么日本能维新成功,...
评分现在果然笨了………这书看了好久
评分History has its victors and victims, of course, and Diamond's account of how those victims became victims is not inviting to both sides. On the side of victors, he underrates their cultural autonomy,and on the side of victims, he offers them an inevitable and miserable destiny.
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评分写得太好了!逻辑非常清晰:欧亚大陆的居民因优厚的自然环境而率先发明了农业,进而有富余的食物提供给不从事农业生产的专业人士,如工匠、士兵和官僚,还在与家畜的接触中拥有了对诸多病菌的免疫力,最终让欧亚大陆在面对美洲、大洋洲和撒哈拉以南的非洲的原住民时无往不利,让从欧亚大陆发源的文明与其后裔成为了当今世界的主宰。所谓老天爷赏饭吃,就是如此了。#推荐给所有地理爱好者
评分写得太好了!逻辑非常清晰:欧亚大陆的居民因优厚的自然环境而率先发明了农业,进而有富余的食物提供给不从事农业生产的专业人士,如工匠、士兵和官僚,还在与家畜的接触中拥有了对诸多病菌的免疫力,最终让欧亚大陆在面对美洲、大洋洲和撒哈拉以南的非洲的原住民时无往不利,让从欧亚大陆发源的文明与其后裔成为了当今世界的主宰。所谓老天爷赏饭吃,就是如此了。#推荐给所有地理爱好者
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